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Articles and U.S. military records relating to displaced persons in postwar Europe

Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0049 | RG Number: RG-19.024.01

Includes copies of military documents and other materials from various U.S. Army authorities (e.g., 7th U.S. Army, Headquarters USFET, SHAEF) in postwar Europe concerning the management, care, living conditions, and repatriation of displaced persons. Also included are two copies of the report written by Earl G. Harrison to President Truman in 1945 concerning conditions for displaced persons in Europe, together with a condensed version of the same report that appeared in the"National Jewish monthly," November 1945 issue.

The original articles and miliatry records were collected by Albert Hutler during his service with the 7th U.S. Army in Mannheim, Germany. Copies of the originals were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives by Hutler in Jan. 1992.

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